times were a changin

Times Were A-Changin’ All elections have many issues surrounding them. But none have had as many as the election of 1896. In my mind, the Depression was by far the largest issue in the election, but there were many other smaller issues, such as the gold vs silver standard, also played a major role in the candidates campaigns. The prior president, Grover Cleveland, had only worsened the economic standing in the United States by focusing all …

…expanding abroad, America got so caught up in itself and its idea of an idea government and country, that we wanted every to accept our ways and beliefs, no matter how or in what way, be it by suggestion or if it came down to it, war. America is still to this day trying to expand our thought and beliefs, that started over a 100 years ago when McKinley was elected president in the election of 1896.